Statistics, Smoke, and Mirrors

Statistics. Do they mean anything at all, when they can be bent out of shape and spun any which way?

The facts. The truth. Are there such things? When two week floppolas are deemed hits on this board, one truly has to wonder.

I have to wonder when I see a feature on Broadway World showing an on-stage celebration of Spider-man's 1,000th performance. Because I stop and say to myself that the show officially opened in June, 2011, so how can that be? And when I check IBDB to see a tally of 811 performances thus far. So now they're counting previews as official performances to get it to 1,000, the same people who complained bitterly about people reviewing the show beore it had "opened?"

What a world.

I didn't realize they said "official" performances since "opening." I thought it was 1,000 performances including the 1st public performance. But I'll re-read the article.

It sounds like you're agitated at not having been invited to the party. :)

I certainly considered the preview I attended a "performance." But your thread is about "Statistics...," not SPIDER-MAN. May we have some more examples, please?

^ Ditto

This type of fudging of the facts is not new

When Movie Palaces were going up the enterprising owners counted seats in the stalls as seats so they could trumpet their claims that their theater was bigger than one that just opened.

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